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Google's Most Important Cities on a Map

Can you name the 70 cities that appear on Google Maps at a zoom of 4 - the smallest scale where cities still appear?
Not including Antarctic research stations or places without any permanent inhabitants
We've given you the first letter of cities with a population under 100,000
The population of one city is for the agglomeration it is located in, despite not being the largest city
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Last updated: April 17, 2020
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Population
City
40,400,000
Tokyo
33,600,000
Shanghai
31,300,000
Jakarta
30,300,000
Delhi
25,100,000
Mumbai
24,800,000
Seoul
23,000,000
Mexico City
19,800,000
Beijing
19,400,000
Lagos
18,800,000
Bangkok
17,700,000
Los Angeles
17,700,000
Osaka
17,300,000
Moscow
16,400,000
Buenos Aires
16,000,000
Istanbul
14,800,000
London
(13,900,000)
Pretoria
12,400,000
Kinshasa
Population
City
12,200,000
Bangalore
11,400,000
Paris
10,500,000
Nagoya
10,100,000
Lima
9,750,000
Chicago
9,600,000
Bogota
9,150,000
Taipei
8,900,000
Kuala Lumpur
8,600,000
Ho Chi Minh City
8,150,000
Luanda
8,050,000
Riyadh
7,850,000
San Francisco
7,500,000
Hong Kong
7,450,000
Toronto
7,250,000
Santiago
7,200,000
Dallas
6,750,000
Houston
6,550,000
Madrid
Population
City
5,900,000
Nairobi
5,300,000
Sydney
4,975,000
Melbourne
4,775,000
Barcelona
4,225,000
Cape Town
4,225,000
Caracas
4,225,000
Montreal
3,725,000
Dakar
3,575,000
Rome
3,425,000
Durban
3,150,000
Brisbane
2,725,000
Quito
2,500,000
Sapporo
2,350,000
Asuncion
2,275,000
Las Vegas
2,125,000
Mecca
2,075,000
Perth
Population
City
1,860,000
Montevideo
1,690,000
Novosibirsk
1,670,000
Cordoba
1,440,000
Prague
1,410,000
Auckland
1,340,000
Adelaide
1,250,000
Ottawa
1,130,000
Krasnoyarsk
1,120,000
Nur-Sultan
1,000,000
Honolulu
322,000
Newcastle
292,000
Anchorage
43,000
Hilo
36,000
Apia
26,000
Papeete
7,000
Hanga Roa
50
Adamstown
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Level 77
Apr 17, 2020
Hmmm. Google have made some mighty strange choices on there. Prominent amongst which are: no New York, Cairo, Berlin or Washington, preferring Pretoria to Johannesburg, no Vancouver, nothing at all in Brazil or most of North Africa (Algiers, Addis Ababa, Khartoum, Tunis) or Scandinavia but they did manage Hanga Roa and Adamstown. But not Kiev, Baghdad, Tehran, Karachi, Dhaka, Colombo or Singapore. I reckon they were having an off-day when they designed that.
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Level 70
Apr 17, 2020
Some of it has to do with where the label of the country/sub-national entity sits. For instance, Halifax is the largest city in Nova Scotia, but since it's directly in the middle of the province, it's covered by the name of the province and you have to zoom in loads just to see it.
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Level 66
Apr 17, 2020
Great Concept! This might just be me, but when i go to a zoom level of 4, I also see Vienna, Cali, Berlin, Sao Paulo, and Philadelphia.
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Level 74
Apr 17, 2020
The cities shown seem to change depending on where you are located. Some people I've asked have had up to 3 Brazilian cities visible, while others have also had the same cities as me. I'm not sure why.
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Level 67
Apr 18, 2020
Yes this is definitely different depending on your default location. For me I can see Sao Paulo, Salvador, Dar es Salaam etc.
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Level 95
Apr 17, 2020
Interesting quiz!
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Level 60
Apr 18, 2020
The circles doesn't shrinks when zoomed.

Great quiz otherwise (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤